Example sentences of "of it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further , he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze . |
| 3 | To win a pound of gold the Rand miners had on the average to raise , crush and purify some sixty-seven tons of ore , much of it under extreme temperatures and from great depths . |
| 4 | Well I thought you gave a very clear and er convincing account of it despite that so congratulations , well done , that was excellent . |
| 5 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |
| 6 | Ferguson , with only six goals to show from United 's last 12 games , has £5m to spend and would be reluctant to pour most of it into one signing . |
| 7 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 8 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 9 | Multiple layers of screening , much of it of dubious scientific validity , may become a routine feature of working life unless restraints are imposed by law , as some states have begun to do . |
| 10 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 11 | Since there is a body of theory associated with these routes , some of it of considerable generality , identification of one of the routes implies that the transition is at least partially understood . |
| 12 | ‘ Was any of it of any use , ’ I asked , ‘ My course I mean . ’ |
| 13 | You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into . |
| 14 | Behaviour has to be shaped up , bit by bit until the child is able to complete the whole of it as one process . |
| 15 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 16 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 17 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 18 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 19 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 20 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 21 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 22 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 23 | ’ Think of it as another reason for you to stay away from big gorgeous women with enormous boobs ’ . |
| 24 | Just think of it as bad luck . ’ |
| 25 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 26 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 27 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 28 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 29 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 30 | I 'm far too fond of it for that . |